Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-08-12
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

ed by the government departments
at Washington. No wonder there
is GOODNESS among some of the Cab
met officers.
Miss Chestnut is the name OF an
attractive and popular belle at At
lantic City. The name is in no way
appropriate, and some gallant youth
ought TO be able to ring the belle
before the end of the season.
Poisoned by buttermilk, poison.
ed by lemonade, poisoned by ice
cream, poisoned by this, that and
the other refreshment. So the
news items read. What shall we
drink, anyhow!
Panhandle, Tex, advertises for
"one hundred single young women
who are prepared to rough it for
time. to come to Panhandle and
marry our thrifty young men,
Panhandle evidently forgets that
lean year is five months of.
Gen. Geo. Gusts Lee, President
Of Washington and Lee University
and eldest son OF the late Gen. r.
z. Lee, is lying dangerously i'll at
"Ravenswood," the residence Of his
brother, Congressman W. II. F.
Lee.
There is a decided similarity be-
tween the frightful murder of that
Georgia family and the crime that
took place near Hagerstown few
months ago, for which Emanuel
Cump is now serving a sentence.
OF course, the Georgia case is much
the worse of the two.
A Scotch dominic, after relating
TO bis scholars the story OF Ananias
and Sapphira asked them why God
did not strike everybody dead who
told q lie r. After a long silence
one little fellow got to his feet and
exclaimed: because, sir, there
wadna be anybody lett
The foolish young man who tried
to play a practical joke as a ghost
in Baltimore and who is now IN
the hospital with a dangerous
wound, has learned a terrible les
son. 1t was a sad punishment for
bis folly, and the moral otit should
be useful to all other practical jo-
kerS.
The Wytheville Patriot says
Susie Hart, a young girl attending
the Sunday School at Evergreen
church, has committed 5000 verses
to memory since the goth of March
last. The entire class of six small
girls have committed 46,446 verses
in the same length of time.
II is fashionable to fly at this
season to the mountains or the sea.
side, aud there in a room, ten by
twelve, swelter through the hot
weather; but it is not comfort
luckily for those who do this they
can HE back in good season and
recuperate some of their exhausted
energies in town.
The utter soullessness of corpO-
ratiOns has again been shown
This time it is by the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad, which has issued
an order iorbidding engineers and
firemen to wink at, or flirt with,
any women ley may see as they
pass along. Comment on such
wanton cruelty is needless.
The Supreme Court in Washing
ton Territory has decided that the
conviction of prisoner by jury
composed of women was illegal
This is a decided setback for the
advocates of the doctrine that wo-
man should perform all the politi-
cal and social functions Of man.
Probably the prisoners counsel
contended that his clients guilt or
innocence had not been passed on
by jury Of his peers.
A Chicago heiress, who was en-.
gagged to a young man of that city,
went to Paris last month to pur-
chase her bridal outfit. She acci-
dentally met a baron whom she
had known at Saratoga. He paid
her devoted attention, and the re-
suit was marriage ten days ago.
The young man in Chicago should
not be discouraged, however. Very
likely the heiress will get divorce
IN a year or so, and then he can II .
lustrate tine adage Of him who
laughs best laughs last.
A Nashville lady dreamed one
night recently that her old school
frienG, whose bridesmaid she had
been at her wedding to a Virginia
planter a year before, had died
suddenly and that she was present
at the funeral. The lady related
the dream to her family, and re-
fused to be convinced that il was
not a premonition of death. A
week later a delayed letter reached
the lady informing her that her
friend tad died at about the same
time with the occurrence of the
dream.
A wonderful story about a cat is
told by the st. Louis GlObe.DemO-
crat. This cat had litter of three
kittens. Not being satisfied with
this small family, she went out and
brought in two young rabbits and
adopted them as part of her family